EP0025230A2 - Verfahren und Apparat zur Herstellung von Vorformen für optische Fasern - Google Patents

Verfahren und Apparat zur Herstellung von Vorformen für optische Fasern Download PDF

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EP0025230A2
EP0025230A2 EP80105389A EP80105389A EP0025230A2 EP 0025230 A2 EP0025230 A2 EP 0025230A2 EP 80105389 A EP80105389 A EP 80105389A EP 80105389 A EP80105389 A EP 80105389A EP 0025230 A2 EP0025230 A2 EP 0025230A2
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Giacomo Roba
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    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/014—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD]
    • C03B37/016—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD] by a liquid phase reaction process, e.g. through a gel phase

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  • the present invention relates to physical carriers for optical telecommunications systems and more particularly it concerns a method of and an apparatus for the industrial production of optical fibre preforms.
  • the process for optical fibre production comprises two main stages: one in which a cylindrical preform is realized having a radial refractive index profile similar to the one of the fibres, and the other in which the temperature is increased and the preform is pulled into optical fibres.
  • the first stage requires much care in order to obtain high quality fibres as to mechanical and transmissive. properties. More particularly it is necessary to reduce to the minimum the metallic or water contamination of the preform in order to avoid the high losses due to'absorbption in the wave length range used in telecommunications.
  • CVD Chemical Vapour Deposition
  • the first method relates to the. deposition on the inner surface of a supporting tube (Inside CVD), while the second method relates to the deposition on the outer surface of a supporting mandrel (Outside CVD).
  • the reactants flow inside the supporting tube, made of silica glass, and the oxidation reactions, with subsequent deposition, are obtained by translation in the direction of the reactant flow of a high-temperature annular zone.
  • the preform After a suitable number of deposition cycles the preform has a tubular shape and a spongy structure of milky colour or it is already vitrified, depending on the temperature at which the previous operations have been carried out. At this point, the preform is collapsed by means of high temperature to a solid transparent rod.
  • the deposited material solidifies on the support by translating a high.temperature annular zone, together with the nozzles where from the reactants flow, and by rotating the support around its axis.
  • the preform that presents in this phase a spongy and milky structure, is separated from the support and undergoes a number of operations designed to eliminate water molecules. Said molecules, if still present in the optical fibres might originate serious absorption losses.
  • automatic-control systems must be pro vided able to keelp the temperature values within certain ranges, beyond which irregularities of the process or support deformation can arise.
  • vapour-phase reactants limits deposition rate to a value that cannot be exceeded, due to the reduced density of the carried material.
  • An apparatus designed to carry out said method is a further object of the present invention.
  • references 7 and 8 denote two vessels containing liquid reactants 9 and 10.
  • One of said liquids(e. g. Si C1 4 ) supplies the material for preform production, while the other (e. g. Ge Cl 4 )supplies the dopant for radial variations of the refractive index.
  • Liquids 9 and 10 are led to the chamber where the chemical reaction takes place by means of two tubes 11 and 12, placed inside vessels 7 and 8 and having the accesses near the bottom beneath the liquid surface.
  • the pressure necessary to the reactant transfer into the reaction chamber is obtained by a usual inert gas previously compressed in a container, that is nbt shown in the drawing. This gas arrives through tubes 1 and 2, flow meters 3 and 4 and valves 5 and 6 inside the vessels, above the liquid surface, generating flows of controllable value in tubes 11 and 12.
  • Tubes 15 and 18 are joint inside chamber 25 with two coaxial nossles 16 and 17, useful to spout reactants towards the lateral inner surface 26 of the chamber that forms the support of the preform.
  • Tubes 15 and 18 enter the chamber through dynamic airtight opening, while residual gases derived from the reaction among the reactants are extracted by tube 22, connected through hoses 23 to tube 24 leading to a- conventional suction pump, not represented in the drawing.
  • Tubes 15 and 18 can axially traslate with respect to reaction chamber 25, together with nozzles 16 and 17, so that material derived from the chemical reaction is uniformely deposited on the inner surface of the support.
  • the reaction chamber can rotate around its axis. Mechanical devices allowing the axial translation of nozzles 16 and 17 and rotation of chamber 25 have not been represented,. since their making is well-known and is not a problem to the skilled in the art.
  • Fig. 2 shows a part of a second example of apparatus for producing optical fibre preforms.
  • Identical references denote basically identical details in Figs. and 2.
  • a mandrel 28 that is another type of preform support. It can be made of graphite or quartz. Also in this case mechanical devices are provided not represented in the drawing, able to effect a translation of nozzles 16 and 17 with respect to support 28 and to rotate the support around its axis. In this way the vitrifiable material can be uniformely deposited to a constant thickness around the whole cylindrical surface of mandrel 28.
  • the chemical reaction and the deposition must take place also for this apparatus in a controlled-atmosphere chamber in or; der to avoid any possible contamination of the preform. Then an airtight chamber is provided, equipped with access for the tubes by which the reactants are transferred and with an output for residual gas suction.
  • the liquid reactant is sent under pressure at room temperature through tube 15 to nozzle 16, from which it comes out subdivided into micronized droplets and it reacts with the oxidant emitted by nozzle 17, according to the following chemical equation:
  • Hydrated silica Si O 2 2 (H 2 O) is deposited on the inner or outer surface of the cylindrical support, dependant on the used apparatus, and adheres to it due to colloidal and electrostatic forces that take place among the particles. Due to the rotation of the support and to the translation in both directions of the nozzles, various cylindrical layers of constant thickness are deposited to the totale required thickness of the preform wall.
  • a dopant is added, that has been introduced into the reaction chamber by means of another tube and another nozzle, or yet, as depicted in Figures 1 and 2, by the same tube 15 and the same nozzle 16.
  • the flows of reactant, contained in vessel 7, and of dopant, contained in vessel 8 are controlled in order to obtain suitable ratios between the concentration of oxides forming the preform.
  • the wanted profile of refractive index can be obtained in the preform at the process end and therefore in optical fibers. More particularly, by the apparatus of Fig. 1 in which the preform growth takes place towards the rotation axis, the dopant is sent with greater concentration towards the end of the process, so as to obtain the minimum value of refractive index in the most external zones. On the contrary, by the apparatus of Fig. 2, the dopant will be sent with maximum concentration at the beginning of the process.
  • a preform can be obtained with tranverse section as shown in Fig. 3.
  • drawing reference 26 denotes the cylindrical hollow support on whose inner surface the deposition of vitrifiable is effected, denoted by 27, that afterwards is pulled to optical fibre.
  • a preform is obtained having a transverse section of the kind represented in Fig. 4.
  • the support, always denoted by reference 28, is now inside the silica glass preform, denoted by reference 30.
  • the preform has porous structure, it consists of milky, non-trasparent glass and contains water molecules.
  • the preform that during this phase has a tubular shape, is thus transferred into a high-temperature oven, where it is collapsed to a rod and is completely vitrified. Then a solid and transparent structure is obtained with a radial profile of the refractive index equal to the one desired for the optical fibres.
  • Fibre pulling can now take place as usual, beginning from the inferior meniscus of the preform in high temperature oven.

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US4417910A (en) * 1980-09-17 1983-11-29 Michel Passaret Process for manufacturing a glass tube comprising at least one doped silica layer
US4443239A (en) * 1982-05-20 1984-04-17 International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation Fabrication of optical waveguides using slurry deposition
EP0153785A2 (de) * 1984-02-21 1985-09-04 Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH Verfahren zur Herstellung von rohrförmigen Körpern und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens
EP0241037A2 (de) * 1986-04-10 1987-10-14 CSELT Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung einer optischen Faservorform zur Benutzung im Mittelinfrarotbereich
EP0311942A1 (de) * 1987-10-16 1989-04-19 Alcatel Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Glasröhre mit einem inneren Dotiermittel, insbesondere zur Herstellung von mit einem seltenen Erdmetall dotierten optischen Fasern
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US4417910A (en) * 1980-09-17 1983-11-29 Michel Passaret Process for manufacturing a glass tube comprising at least one doped silica layer
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US4443239A (en) * 1982-05-20 1984-04-17 International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation Fabrication of optical waveguides using slurry deposition
EP0153785A2 (de) * 1984-02-21 1985-09-04 Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH Verfahren zur Herstellung von rohrförmigen Körpern und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens
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